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Videos
Creativity Toybox - Introduction
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Research and Policy
Coffitivity
A team of researchers, led by Ravi Mehta at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign tested the effects of varying levels of noise on participants’ creative thinking skills, proving that moderately loud background noise boosts creative thinking...
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Quotes
“I believe Scotland stands on the threshold of becoming a world leader in creativity, if, and only if, the education sector embraces the challenge of creativity across the curriculum to realize the Curriculum for Excellence...”
—Eric Booth, international creative learning consultant and author of The Everyday Work of Art
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #7 - change as many things as possible about your day
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #4 - a million metaphors
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Videos
Sir Ken Robinson - radio interview in Toronto
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Inspiring Moments
Mutual Curiosity: A look at participatory practice in Scotland
Scotland’s cultural sector has an excellent reputation for its participatory practice – artists and people working creatively together in communities, education contexts and other areas of public life such as social care and justice...
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Research and Policy
Skills in a Nutshell
The National Parent Forum of Scotland Summary of Skills, published as part of their Curriculum for Excellence in a Nutshell series, lays out the basics behind skills across the curriculum in two sides of A4...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #12 - can you tell what it is yet?
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Creative Partners
Edinburgh Art Festival
Edinburgh Art Festival is the UK’s largest annual festival of visual art offering an unrivalled programme of exhibitions, commissions and special events...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #2 - invent your own sport or game
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #20 - imagine the impossible
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Creative Partners
Making Music
Making Music is the UK’s membership organisation for leisure-time music, with over 3,600 groups representing around 200,000 music makers across the UK...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #13 - asking difficult questions
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Images
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Online Teaching Tools
Five top tips to run a successful design workshop
Based on the information in seperate guides for teaching design in primary and secondary settings, this article summarises the top five tips that will help to inform the quality of teaching when leading a design workshop, across all levels and settings...
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Online Teaching Tools
Creative Thinking and Goal Setting - SCQF Level 5 (intermediate 2) SQA qualification
This Unit is aimed at developing: Creative thinking Goal setting Critical thinking, planning and organising, reviewing and evaluating...
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Videos
Creativity Toybox #17 - silent chinese whispers
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Research and Policy
The Future of Work: Jobs and Skills in 2030
What will jobs in the UK look like in 2030...
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Research and Policy
The #creativity Daily
An online newspaper collating articles tweeted by creative Twitter users from across the globe...